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Storage of Light in a Hollow-Core Photonic-Crystal Fibre

Michael Sprague, Patrick Michelberger, Tessa F. M. Champion, Duncan G. England, Joshua Nunn, W. S. Kolthammer, Xian‐Min Jin, A. Abdolvand, Philip St.J. Russell, Ian A. Walmsley

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report the storage and retrieval of broadband optical pulses using a Raman interaction in a room-temperature ensemble of cesium atoms confined in a hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.qtu1c.4

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